}

  /**
   * Helper method to grow the character buffer as needed, this only happens once in a while so it's
   * ok if it's in a method call. If the index passed in is 0 then no copying will be done.
   */
  private static char[] growBuffer(char[] dest, int index, int size) {
    if (size < 0) { // overflow - should be OutOfMemoryError but GWT/j2cl don't support it

  /**
   * Returns a new immutable array containing the values in the specified range.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> The returned array has the same full memory footprint as this one
   * does (no actual copying is performed). To reduce memory usage, use {@code subArray(start,
   * end).trimmed()}.
   */
  public ImmutableLongArray subArray(int startIndex, int endIndex) {

  /**
   * Returns a new immutable array containing the values in the specified range.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> The returned array has the same full memory footprint as this one
   * does (no actual copying is performed). To reduce memory usage, use {@code subArray(start,
   * end).trimmed()}.
   */
  public ImmutableIntArray subArray(int startIndex, int endIndex) {

  // scheduled on that same threadpool, causing a deadlock in cases where the
  // caller of event_mgr->ThenExecute() blocks on the completion of the callback
  // (as in the case of ConstOp kernel creation on GPU, which involves copying a
  // CPU tensor to GPU).
  // Setting a larger thread pool does not help with the Swift caller, as we use
  // a different TFE context for each thread of execution (for running graph

        : copyOf(elements.iterator());
  }

  /**
   * Returns an immutable list containing the given elements, in order.
   *
   * <p>Despite the method name, this method attempts to avoid actually copying the data when it is
   * safe to do so. The exact circumstances under which a copy will or will not be performed are
   * undocumented and subject to change.
   *

		}
	}

	if len(fanOutEntries) > 0 {
		// Fan-out requires no copying, and must be carried from original source
		// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection so the incoming stream
		// is always going to be in-memory as we cannot re-read from what we
		// wrote to disk - since that amounts to "copying" from a "copy"
		// instead of "copying" from source, we need the stream to be seekable

  }

  /**
   * Returns an immutable map containing the same entries as {@code map}, sorted by the natural
   * ordering of the keys.
   *
   * <p>Despite the method name, this method attempts to avoid actually copying the data when it is
   * safe to do so. The exact circumstances under which a copy will or will not be performed are
   * undocumented and subject to change.
   *

// Currently this is an error, and un-packing ParallelTensors must be performed
// explicitly by running a TPUReplicatedOutput operation on the parallel device.
//
// TODO(allenl): There are some use-cases that are only supported by copying to
// host at the moment (e.g. debug print on a tensor, .numpy(), etc.). We either
// need to return something here or address these use-cases one by one.
TFE_TensorHandle* CopyTensorFromParallelDevice(TFE_Context* context,

     * but an implemantation that encorporates the transport header(for
     * efficiency) might use a different initial bufferIndex. For example,
     * to eliminate copying data when writing NbtSession data one might
     * manage that 4 byte header specifically and therefore the initial
     * bufferIndex, and thus headerStart, would be 4).(NOTE: If one where

  }

  /**
   * Returns an immutable map containing the same entries as {@code map}, sorted by the natural
   * ordering of the keys.
   *
   * <p>Despite the method name, this method attempts to avoid actually copying the data when it is
   * safe to do so. The exact circumstances under which a copy will or will not be performed are
   * undocumented and subject to change.
   *